What is Partial View in MVC?

Partial views are views without any design. These are used as user controls in MVC. We can create a partial view and used at more than one places in our application.

Partial view is a reusable view (like a user control) which can be embedded inside other view. Once the partial view is created you can call the partial view in the main view using the Html.RenderPartial method.

http://mvc4beginner.com/Tutorial/MVC-Partial-Views.html